Essays on skills, school choice and their long-term consequences

Niepel, Verena

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URL:	https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/32650
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-326502
Document Type:	Doctoral dissertation
Year of publication:	2012
Place of publication:	Mannheim
University:	Universität Mannheim
Evaluator:	Frölich, Markus
Date of oral examination:	18 December 2012
Publication language:	English
Institution:	Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - CDSE (Economics) School of Law and Economics > VWL, Ökonometrie (Frölich 2008-) School of Law and Economics > Graduiertenkolleg VWL/BWL
Subject:	330 Economics
Classification:	JEL: C41, J24, J64, I20, I24, C21,
Subject headings (SWD):	Humankapital , Schulwahl , Arbeitslosigkeit
Individual keywords (German):	Schulwahl, kognitive Fähigkeiten, soziale Fähigkeiten, nicht-kognitive Fähigkeiten, Chancengleichheit
Keywords (English):	School choice , cognitive skills , noncognitive skills , social skills , equality of opportunity
Abstract:	This thesis consists of three essays. The first essay analyses the importance of cognitive and social skills in childhood for the duration of unemployment episodes in early adulthood. The second studies the effects of a Swedish school choice reform on short- and long-term student outcomes. The third essay explores whether students from different socio-economic background or at different parts of the grade distribution were affected differently by the Swedish school choice reform.